Dan Watters

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Dan Watters is an English comics writer who has written for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and independent comics. He is best known for his creator-owned comics Coffin Bound and Home Sick Pilots and his work on Lucifer and Batman.

Career

Watters's first creator-owned comic was the six-issue comic Limbo, which he made with artist Caspar Wijngaard and was published in 2015-2016 through Image Comics. ComicsAlliance described the book as "Lovecraft meets Cronenberg as Innsmouth and Videodrome collide in an explosion of magic, myth, jazz and Kafka."{{Cite web |last=Sneddon |first=Laura |date=2016-02-10 |title=Get Stuck Into 'Limbo' with Wijngaard and Watters [Interview] |url=https://comicsalliance.com/caspar-wijngaard-dan-watters-limbo-interview/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=ComicsAlliance |language=en}} Watters and Wijngaard continued working together, doing stories for Dark Souls and Assassin's Creed for Titan Comics.{{Cite web |last=Reljic |first=Teodor |date=November 22, 2016 |title=A comic book bromance |url=https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/arts/books/71833/a_comic_book_bromance |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Malta Today |language=en}} Watters then worked with Alex Paknadel to do a comic adaptation of Little Nightmares{{Cite web |last=Freeman |first=John |date=2017-02-17 |title=BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Europe and Titan Comics team up for new “Little Nightmares” comic |url=https://downthetubes.net/bandai-namco-entertainment-europe-and-titan-comics-team-up-for-new-little-nightmares-comic/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Down the Tubes |language=en-GB}} before working on The Shadow with Si Spurrier and Wolfenstein.{{Cite web |title=Dynamite® The Shadow: Leviathan Trade Paperback |url=https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C1524105694 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Dynamite Press}}{{Cite web |last=McKee |first=Kenny |last2= |first2= |last3= |first3= |last4= |first4= |last5= |first5= |last6= |last7= |first7= |last8= |first8= |last9= |date=2017-08-18 |title=Titan Comics Announces Wolfenstein #1 |url=https://www.heypoorplayer.com/2017/08/18/titan-comics-announces-new-wolfenstein-1-comic/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Hey Poor Player |language=en-US}}

In 2018, he released Deep Roots through Vault Comics, which was one of the first comics he created as part of White Noise, the British comic collective made up of Watters, Ryan O’Sullivan, Alex Paknadel, and Ram V.{{Cite web |last=Foxe |first=Steve |date=May 15, 2018 |title=Exclusive: Vault Comics & White Noise Announce Partnership for Four New Comic Series |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/comics/vault-comics/exclusive-vault-comics-white-noise-announce-partne |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Paste Magazine |language=en-US}} He was then announced as the writer for Lucifer for DC's Sandman Universe imprint{{Cite web |last=Foxe |first=Steve |date=October 16, 2018 |title=Lucifer Writer Dan Watters Dissects the Fragments of Satan |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/comics/dan-watters/lucifer-writer-dan-watters-dissects-the-fragments |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Paste Magazine |language=en-US}} and co-wrote House of Whispers with Nalo Hopkinson.{{Cite web |last=Foxe |first=Steve |date=June 25, 2019 |title=A Delightfully Off-the-Rails Conversation With the Writers Behind The Sandman Universe |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/comics/the-sandman-universe/a-delightfully-off-the-rails-conversation-with-the |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Paste Magazine |language=en-US}} In 2019, he and artist Dani put out the creator-owed Coffin Bound though Image, a surreal post-apocalyptic western.{{Cite web |last=Herviou |first=Nicole |date=2019-07-15 |title=Dan Watters discusses 'Coffin Bound' |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2019/07/15/dan-watters-discusses-coffin-bound/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=AiPT |language=en-us}}{{Cite web |last=Rosenthal |first=Victoria |date=2019-04-18 |title=This Is the New Comic Series You'll Be Dying to Read |url=https://thepopinsider.com/coffin-bound-comic/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=The Pop Insider |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Weiss |first=Josh |date=2019-07-10 |title=Coffin Bound first look: Image Comics goes old school with grindhouse and ashcan homage |url=https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/coffin-bound-image-comics-exclusive |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=SYFY |language=en-US}}

In 2020, he re-teamed with Wijngaard to publish Home Sick Pilots, a "punk rock horror" comic, through Image.{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Graeme |date=2020-09-17 |title=Punk Horror Comic 'Home Sick Pilots' Coming from Image |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/punk-horror-comic-homesick-pilots-coming-from-image-4062281/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Pitts |first=Lan |date=2020-11-27 |title=Image Comics' Home Sick Pilots is a punk rock ghost story from Dan Watters & Caspar Wijngaard |url=https://www.gamesradar.com/image-comics-home-sick-pilots-is-a-punk-rock-ghost-story-from-dan-watters-and-caspar-wijngaard/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=GamesRadar |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Webster |first=Andrew |date=2021-05-22 |title=Home Sick Pilots is a haunted house story with a punk rock edge |url=https://www.theverge.com/22447405/home-sick-pilots-review-image-comics |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=The Verge |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Mullicane |first=Evan D. |date=2020-10-15 |title=Evangelion Meets Hill House in Image's 'Home Sick Pilots' |url=https://screenrant.com/home-sick-pilots-comic-evangelion-hill-house/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}} He also published The Picture of Everything Else, a take of The Picture of Dorian Gray, through Vault.{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Graeme |date=2020-09-21 |title=How 'Picture of Everything Else' Puts Twist on Classic Tale |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/how-picture-of-everything-else-puts-twist-on-classic-tale-4062922/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Coplan |first=Chris |date=2020-11-24 |title=Dan Watters talks art, horror in 'The Picture of Everything Else' |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2020/11/24/horror-the-picture-of-everything-else/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=AiPT |language=en-us}} In 2021, he teamed up with artist Dani again to work on Arkham City: The Order of the World, a six-issue mini-series for DC Comics about a psychiatrist from Arkham Asylum attempting to find a number of patients who have escaped into the city.{{Cite web |last=Brooke |first=David |date=2021-10-04 |title=Dan Watters on making you uncomfortable with 'Arkham City: The Order of the World' |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2021/10/04/dan-watters-takes-us-to-arkham-city/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=AiPT |language=en-us}} As part of the book, they reinvented the villain the Ten-Eyed Man.{{Cite web |last=Reaves |first=Dashiel |date=2022-09-08 |title=Batman's New Nightmare-Fuel Enemy Used to be Gotham's Worst Villain |url=https://screenrant.com/batman-best-villains-underrated-ten-eyed-man/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}

In 2021, he and artist Lamar Mathurin worked on Titan's four issue Cowboy Bebop comic, adapting from the 2021 Netflix show,{{Cite web |last=Pulliam-Moore |first=Charles |date=2021-12-09 |title=Titan's Cowboy Bebop Comic Captures the Cool Energy Netflix's Show Missed |url=https://gizmodo.com/titans-cowboy-bebop-comic-captures-the-cool-energy-netf-1848185383 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Gizmodo |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Williams |first=Tommy |date=2021-08-31 |title=COWBOY BEBOP is Getting a Comic Series, a Prequel Novel, and an Art Book for the Live-Action Series |url=https://geektyrant.com/news/cowboy-bebop-is-getting-a-comic-series-a-prequel-novel-and-an-art-book-for-the-live-action-series |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=GeekTyrant |language=en-US}} and in 2022, he wrote a six-issue Sword of Azrael mini-series for DC with artist Nikola Čižmešija.{{Cite web |last=Chiu-Tabet |first=Christopher |date=2022-05-05 |title=DC Announces “Sword of Azrael” Miniseries |url=http://www.multiversitycomics.com/news/sword-of-azrael/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Multiversity Comics |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=DeArmitt |first=Grant |date=2022-08-01 |title=Azrael, DC's angel of vengeance, becomes a man of peace in Watters & Cizmesjia series |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/azrael-sword-of-batman-dan-watters-nikola-cizmesija-dc |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Popverse |language=en}} In 2022, it was announced by Humanoids that Watters would write one of the prequel graphic novels for The Incal called Dying Star, with artist Jon Davis-Hunt.{{Cite web |last=Grobar |first=Matt |date=December 21, 2021 |title=Humanoids To Unveil Three New Stories From The Incal Universe |url=https://deadline.com/2021/12/humanoids-to-unveil-three-new-stories-from-the-incal-universe-1234899810/ |access-date=2025-01-13 |website=Deadline}} In 2023, he worked with artist Sebastián Cabrol on The Seasons Have Teeth, a four-issue series from Boom! Studios,{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Graeme |date=2023-01-20 |title=Winter, spring, summer or fall, a new Dan Watters and Sebastián Cabrol comic is going to make you re-examine them all |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/the-seasons-have-teeth-boom-studios-dan-watters-sebastian-cabrol |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Popverse |language=en}} and with artist Germán Peralta on Loki for Marvel.{{Cite web |date=January 18, 2023 |title=Loki Forges a Weapon That Curses the Marvel Universe in New Solo Comic Series |url=https://www.marvel.com/articles/comics/loki-2023-solo-comic-series-weapon-curses-marvel-universe |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Marvel Entertainment}}{{Cite web |last=Norton |date=2023-01-23 |title=The Marvel Universe is Cursed Thanks to Loki's Newest Weapon! |url=https://www.theworkprint.com/the-marvel-universe-is-cursed-thanks-to-lokis-newest-weapon/123 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=The Workprint |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Dar |first=Taimur |date=2023-01-18 |title=LOKI conjures more mayhem in new miniseries from Dan Waters and Germán Peralta |url=https://www.comicsbeat.com/loki-miniseries-watters-peralta-june-announced/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=The Beat |language=en-US}}

In September 2023, he worked with Ram V on Detective Comics and then, in 2024, they wrote Universal Monsters: Creature from the Black Lagoon Lives! together for Skybound/Image.{{Cite web |last=Kit |first=Borys |date=2024-01-12 |title='Creature from the Black Lagoon' Comic Book Coming from Robert Kirkman's Skybound Entertainment (Exclusive) |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-comic-1235786821/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Brooke |first=David |date=2024-01-13 |title=Next movie monster series 'Creature from the Black Lagoon' coming April 24 |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2024/01/13/creature-from-the-black-lagoon-2024/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=AiPT |language=en-us}}{{Cite web |last=Barnhardt |first=Adam |date=2024-01-14 |title=Creature from the Black Lagoon Comic on the Way From Skybound |url=https://comicbook.com/comics/news/creature-from-black-lagoon-comic-announced-skybound-entertainment/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en-US}} He and Ram V also worked together on two Image mini-series that would tell one story about a serial killer in a neo-noir cyberpunk setting: Ram V writing The One Hand and Watters writing The Six Fingers.{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Graeme |date=2024-11-01 |title=Image Comics brings the writers of New Gods and Nightwing together for a neo-noir like none other in this December's The One Hand & The Six Fingers |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-six-fingers-one-hand-image-comics-ram-v-dan-watters |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Popverse |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Schedeen |first=Jesse |date=2023-10-26 |title=The Six Fingers : Preview the Mind-Bending Cyberpunk Murder Mystery |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/the-six-fingers-preview-the-mind-bending-cyberpunk-murder-mystery |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=IGN |language=en}} He was also announced to be the writer for the Destro mini-series at Skybound.{{Cite web |last=Brooke |first=David |date=2024-03-07 |title=Skybound adds two G.I. Joe comics series 'Destro' and 'Scarlett' |url=https://aiptcomics.com/2024/03/07/skybound-g-i-joe-comics-destro-scarlett/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=AiPT |language=en-us}}

In March 2024, he was announced as the writer for Titan's Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor series.{{Cite web |last=Schedeen |first=Jesse |date=2024-03-12 |title=Doctor Who: The Fifteenth Doctor Comic Expands on Ncuti Gatwa's Character |url=https://www.ign.com/articles/doctor-who-the-fifteenth-doctor-titan-comics-ncuti-gatwa |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=IGN |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Morrison |first=Matt |date=2023-11-16 |title=Titan Comics Launching New Doctor Who Series on Free Comic Book Day 2024 |url=https://www.superherohype.com/comics/556347-titan-comics-launching-new-doctor-who-series-on-free-comic-book-day-2024 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=SuperHeroHype |language=en-US}} In July 2024, he was announced along with artist Dexter Soy as the new creative team for Nightwing.{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Jenna |date=2024-07-19 |title=Detective Comics, Nightwing, Harley Quinn, and More Get New DC Creative Teams |url=https://comicbook.com/comics/news/detective-comics-nightwing-harley-quinn-new-dc-creative-teams/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en-US}} In September on 2024, it was announced that he and artist Hayden Sherman would work on the twelve-issue mini-series Batman: Dark Patterns, which will take a look at four of Batman's early cases in Gotham, described as "lo-fi, mystery focused."{{Cite web |title=DC Announces New Comic Book Series 'Batman: Dark Patterns' |url=https://www.dc.com/blog/2024/09/19/dc-announces-new-comic-book-series-batman-dark-patterns |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=DC |language=en-us}}{{Cite web |last=Anderson |first=Jenna |date=2024-09-20 |title=Batman: Dark Patterns Miniseries Announced by DC |url=https://comicbook.com/comics/news/batman-dark-patterns-miniseries-announced-dc/ |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=ComicBook.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Graeme |date=2024-09-20 |title=Bruce Wayne's heroic journey begins again in DC's new Batman: Dark Patterns series, from Nightwing writer and Absolute Wonder Woman artist |url=https://www.thepopverse.com/comics-batman-dark-patterns-dc-dark-knight |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Popverse |language=en}}

Personal life

He was born and currently lives in London.{{Cite web |title=Dan Watters |url=https://www.simonandschuster.com/authors/Dan-Watters/186226063 |access-date=2025-01-14 |website=Simon & Schuster |language=en}}

Bibliography

=DC Comics=

Absolute Power Task Force VII #7 (2024)
Action Comics Presents: Doomsday Special #1 (2023)
Aquaman 80th Anniversary 100-Page Super Spectacular #1, short story "What Remains of a Storm" (2021)
Arkham City: The Order of the World #1-6 (2021-2022)
Batman:
Batman Secret Files #3, short story "Afraid of America" (2020)
Batman: Dark Patterns #1-12 (2024-2025)
Batman: The Brave and the Bold vol. 2 #10, short story "The Cheeseburger" (2024)
Batman: Urban Legends #8-10, three-part story "Dark Knight of the Soul" and #17, short story "On His Worst Nights" (2021-2022)
Detective Comics #1040, backup story "The Quiet and Unsung Death of Kirk Langstrom" (2021), #1072-1089, backup stories (2023-2024)
Gotham City Villains Anniversary Giant #1, short story "The Perfect Fit" (2021)
Knight Terrors: Detective Comics #1-2 (2023)
Dark Crisis:
Dark Crisis: The Deadly Green #1 (2022)
Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Wonder Woman #1, short story "The Martian Squidhunter" (2022)
DC's Saved by the Belle Reve #1, short story "How Angels Are Made" (2022)
Future State: Superman/Wonder Woman #1-2 (2021)
Infinite Frontier Secret Files #1, short story "My Brother is a Kind of Shadow" and "The Third Question" (2021)
Justice League Dark 2021 Annual vol. 2 #1 (2021)
The Last God: Songs of Lost Children #1 (2020)
Lazarus Planet: We Once Were Gods #1, short story "Songs of Pain" (2023)
New Year's Evil vol. 2 #1, short story "Winter's Root" (2019)
Nightwing #119-present (2024–present)
Ocean Master: Year of the Villain #1 (2019)
Poison Ivy #25, short story "The Pyrophyte" (2024)
The Sandman Universe:
The Sandman Universe #1 (2018)
House of Whispers #5-22, co-written with Nalo Hopkinson (2018-2020)
Lucifer vol. 3 #1-18, issues #19-24 released in trade paperback (2018-2020)
Secrets of Sinister House vol. 2 #1, short story "Footsteps of Old Worm" (2019)
Super-Pets Special: Bitedentity Crisis #1, short story "The Little Cat" (2024)
Superman Red and Blue #1, short story "Human Colors" (2021)
Sword of Azrael #1-6 (2022-2023)
Sword of Azrael: Dark Knight of the Soul #1 (2022)